Landscape quilt

I really enjoy Beth Ann Williams' Zoom classes, and Friday night's landscape class was very interesting.  I got right to work on Saturday, drawing my little landscape, cutting out a freezer paper pattern, and gathering fabrics.  Here's the simple pattern I drew.

And here are the fabrics I chose.

That was all well and good, but I ran into several problems.  First was that my freezer paper stuck to the front of several pieces of fabric.  I had to unglue with water and then remove the old so that I could put into a new piece.  We had been warned not to press our freezer paper for too long, but when turning the top seam under, you can barely avoid doing this.  The second thing was that my mountain in no way resembles the very famous Camel's Hump mountain.   Very few Vermont mountains are as pointy as the one in the little quilt.  Despite cutting little slits along the ridge line, I just couldn't get the hump to appear.  And finally, I thought the green blob to the right of the mountain was just too big.

It's perfectly fine, and I'll use it to learn Beth Ann's invisible applique and quilt at the same time method.  I will try my hand at some embellishments, too.  But, ultimately, it's not what I really wanted.  So...   I made another one.  This time, I appliqued (with Steam a Seam 2) the mountain and adding another green hill.  And I like it a lot better.  I streamlined the sky a bit, moved the mountain up into the lightest sky, added a plain green below the other green.  And I eliminated the bright blue "river."  Both pieces are about 6" x 9".  

The last time I took a landscape class - with Jo Diggs back in the 1990s? - we sewed everything by hand, and I enjoyed it.  After Friday, I will give the machine method with invisible thread a try and, maybe, find out if I still prefer the old fashioned hand applique method.  Stay tuned!